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I was watching Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill standup routine when it struck me that I wanted to articulate how standup comedy works. It's pretty neat stuff. A good standup routine has a structure and a definite jazz feel to it. At least half of the fun of watching a standup routine is seeing how the parts come together, how the motifs get repeated and woven and made into something more funny than they are in and of themselves. Standup routines, when they are good, are kind of like jazz storytelling... or would be, if jazz used kazoos more frequently.

So, today, for your edification and mine (insidian knows who Eddie Izzard is and may quite possibly be the only person reading this with a hope in hell of knowing what I'm going off about), I was going to chart out the repeated motifs in Dress to Kill, particularly the delightful riff Ciao, and the time intervals that they happened at, so that you could see the weave of the tapestry without being all distracted by the very funny british transvestite guy. (I am not the only person for whom looking at things inside-out holds some appeal. YarnHarlot recently gave in to requests from the studio audience to show her impressively complex knitted mittens inside out. It is NOT JUST ME.)

But, you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions and that didn't actually get done because... because I was too busy listening to my music. Instead of seeing me dismantle a standup routine, you get to read what the auto-random playlist offered me today. I understand that this is about as thrilling as watching other people eat (9 1/2 Weeks notwithstanding) but life is like that sometimes. In (light and honor) of the ongoing Australian Kazaa trial, I've marked with a star items I did NOT download off the glorious interweb (full disclosure: I used WinMX, not Kazaa) but acquired in other ways, sometimes by *gasp* purchasing the album but more often by ripping it off of a friend or relative who already had the .mp3 or CD handy.

*Kingston Trio -- They're Rioting in Africa
Kinks -- Turning Japanese
*Joanne Shenandoah: She Carries the Sky
Hank Williams, Jr. -- A Country Boy Can Survive
Mozart -- Queen of the night aria from Magic Flute
*Adam Ant -- Goody Two Shoes
*John Waite -- Missing You
Mamas and Papas -- California Dreaming
Eberlie Bros. -- Bye, Bye Love
*Modern English -- I Melt With You
*Clancy Brothers -- Reilly's Daughter
Hank Snow -- On the Wings of Snow White Dove
Rolling Stones -- Let's Spend the Night Together
Ozzy -- Mama, I'm Coming Home
*Kosono -- Odo Yewe
*Men Without Hats -- Safety Dance
*Dropkick Murphys -- Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced
*Garbage -- Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) -- Thanks, Mark!
Verdi -- La Donna E Mobile (from Rigoletto)
*Tiffany -- I Think We're Alone Now
Poison -- Every Rose Has its Thorn
Harry Belafonte -- Banana Boat Song
Joe Diffie -- John Deere Green
*Technotronic -- Pump up the Jam
Janis Joplin -- Son of a Preacher Man
Aaron Tippin -- A Little Dust on the Bottle
*TwoMix -- Just Wild Beat Communication
Crystals -- And Then He Kissed Me
*Barenaked Ladies -- Another Postcard
Alice Cooper -- Novocaine
*Beatles -- Dear Prudence